Hoe een verlichtingsideaal een taal wist uit te roeien : Over de verdwijning van het Jiddisch in Nederland
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Camiel Hamans
2020 Volume 71, p157-183
Abstract
<jats:bold>Abstract</jats:bold> <jats:bold><jats:italic>How Enlightenment eradicated a language: About the disappearance of Yiddish in the Netherlands</jats:italic></jats:bold>This study discusses the disappearance of Yiddish in the Netherlands. At the end of the 18<jats:sup>th</jats:sup> century a small group of progressive Jews, inspired
by the French Revolution and the ideas of the Jewish Enlightenment Haskalah, tried to implement changes in the Jewish community of Amsterdam. One of the innovations they proposed was giving up Yiddish in favor of Dutch. Their arguments were threefold: Yiddish was a corrupted language in which
it was impossible to think clearly. Secondly, by using Yiddish the Jews isolated themselves, which led to their backwardness and poverty. Thirdly, by not mastering the national language, the Jews were unable to make full use of their newly acquired civil rights. The initiative of this small
group of forerunners met with fierce resistance in the Jewish community. With the help of two successive kings, who sought centralization and the creation of a common national identity, the progressive liberal group finally gained victory. After about a century, it turned out that Yiddish
had disappeared from the Netherlands.
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